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Sharing and Showing: Television as Monstration

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  • Daniel Dayan

    (Marcel Mauss Institute (CNRS/Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales))

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This article presents a comparison between two models of publicness (one based on a type of television firmly anchored in the center, another depending on media that blur all distinctions between centers and peripheries) and asks what sort of sharedness do these two models allow? The article also explores the notion of “monstration.†Through what sorts of displays do contending media call on public attention? Can one speak of “acts of showing†the way one speaks of speech acts? What is the impact of such acts on a sociology of collective attention? Third, the article examines the coexistence between television of the center and new digital media. Is their relation agonistic or, paradoxically, cooperative? The present situation may echo many earlier cases in which old media learned to coexist with new media by starting unexpected dialogues and practicing a division of labor. Today’s situation might be a (reluctant) partnership in a multitiered public sphere.

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  • Daniel Dayan, 2009. "Sharing and Showing: Television as Monstration," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 625(1), pages 19-31, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:625:y:2009:i:1:p:19-31
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716209338364
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